A Quote by Jack Nicklaus

It takes hundreds of good golf shots to gain confidence, but only one bad one to lose it.

Jack Nicklaus

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Jack Nicklaus
American - Golfer
Born: January 21, 1940

Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots - but you have to play the ball where it lies.

Bobby Jones

The poetic temperament is the worst for golf. It dreams of brilliant drives, iron shots laid dead, and long putts holed, while in real golf success waits for him who takes care of the foozles and leaves the fine shots to take care of themselves.

Charles Walter Simpson

Golf is not a game of good shots. It's a game of bad shots.

Ben Hogan

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

Benjamin Franklin

If you are physically ready to play, it's a matter of confidence. Your confidence goes down when you lose games, when shots are not going in.

Toni Kukoc

You try to figure out the two things that I use as the philosophy to do a golf course. The first is that most people are really interested in something being aesthetically pleasing and good to the eye. The second is that a good golfer likes good golf shots.

Jack Nicklaus

If you design something pretty with good golf shots in it, then I think that's the combination that creates a really nice golf course.

Jack Nicklaus

I build confidence when I practice a variety of shots - hitting it high or low, working the ball. A lot of golfers go to the range and just hit full shots. That doesn't build on-course confidence, because you won't always hit full shots out there. My confidence is built on knowing I can effectively work the ball in any circumstance.

JoAnne Carner

Golf is the crack of sports. If you hit five good shots, you know you can hit six good shots. The next time you hit six good shots, you know you can hit seven.

Alice Cooper

Golf is not about the quality of your good shots, it is about the quality of your bad shots.

Nick Faldo

I've been in some seriously bad places playing golf and it's just part of the game. You're going to hit bad shots, you're going to be in bad spots, and each course, when you learn it, you learn where not to go.

Tiger Woods

There's nothing good about getting older-absolutely nothing-because the amount of wisdom and experience you gain is negligible compared to what you lose. You do gain a couple of things-you gain a little bittersweet and sour wisdom from your heartbreaks and failures and things-but what you lose is so catastrophic in every way.

Woody Allen

Basketball is a game of sacrificing yourself for the next guy, being a team that takes good shots, and taking the right shots

David Blatt

If I can hit the ball the way I want to hit it on the range, I'd rather do that than play golf. I just love the feeling of hitting good golf shots.

Vijay Singh

Nobody - but nobody - has ever become really proficient at golf without practice, without doing a lot of thinking and then hitting a lot of shots. It isn't so much a lack of talent; it's a lack of being able to repeat good shots consistently that frustrates most players. And the only answer to that is practice.

Jack Nicklaus

Sometimes I play good shots, good rallies, and then there is hundreds of mistakes and not a good shot.